Animal Husbandry
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY ACTIVITIES IN KALAHANDI
Objectives to achieve the Goal
- To make Animal Resources Development an engine of growth of the rural economy of Odisha, providing income and sustainable livelihood opportunities to the people.
- To provide efficient veterinary services at the door step of the farmers.
- To make backyard poultry a popular and viable subsidiary farming activity in rural area
- To enhance availability of feed and fodder for economic dairy farming
- To achieve self sufficiency/ surplus in milk, meat and egg production
- To enhance per capita availability of milk, eggs, and meat including poultry meat
- To make dairying a viable livelihood option for small, marginal farmers and landless persons by strengthening all forward and backward linkages
- To enable the farmers to improve the productivity of animals like sheep, goat , pig and poultry
DIFFERENT PLANS OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY DEVELOPMENT
- Mobile Veterinary unit: Mobile Veterinary Unit was launched by Sj. Naveen Patnaik, Hon’ble Chief Minister, Odisha at Jeypore on 10th July,2011. In each block the Mobile Veterinary Unit moves to in accessible pockets 20 days in a month.
- Promotion of dairy entrepreneurship (PDE/DEDS) : In this scheme the beneficiary can get 2 to 10 hybrid cows/ Buffalo with subsidies ( 25-33 %) loan sanctioned from banks .
- Calf Rearing Programme (CRP) :Supply foods for Hybrid female calf ( 4 to 24 month) in subsidies amount rate.
- Livestock Insurance under risk management of Naional Livestock mission : This is a animal insurance progamme in subsidies rate.
- NMPS : in this scheme to provide shelter for improved verity Goat and some food supplementary etc. Besides this goat cluster and goat scout are included.
- Commercial Agri Enterprise : In this scheme facilitated to layer hen forms and goat farms , seep farms etc. with a maximum amount Rs. 50 00 000 subsidy.
- Backyard Poultry : Subsidies rate 28 days old 45 numbers of Banajat chick are provided to poor below poverty line farmers.
Name | Value |
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Veterinary Dispensary | 18 |
Veterinary Hospital | 3 |
Livestock Aid Centre | 139 |
Artificial Insemination facilities | 121 |
Mobile Vety. Unit | 13 |
Goat Breeding Farm | 01 |
Clinical Investigation Laboratory | 01 |
Gomitra Centre | 30 |
BAIF Centre | 10 |
J K Trust Centre | 01 |
Bacterial | Viral |
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HS BQ Anthrax Enterotoxaemia |
FMD PPR Goat pox RD |
Activities
Animal health camps

Preventive vaccination
- Preventive vaccination against contagious diseases are generally carried out after routine deworming.
- The camp has helped in significant growth of body weight thereby benefitted numbers of poor farmers
Awareness camps

MVU camp
- Information about common diseases affecting livestock, their prevention and control
- Precautionary/preparatory measures during natural calamities viz: heat wave, flood etc.
- Feeding balanced feed & fodder (semi-intensive method) .
- Protect their feed & fodder much ahead of onset of monsoon.